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  • Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alafair Burke Quotes , Law Quotes , World Quotes
  • The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Law Quotes , Magazines Quotes
  • The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Science Quotes , Law Quotes
  • No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Law Quotes , May Quotes
  • Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Nature Quotes , Law Quotes
  • By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , History Quotes
  • ...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Lying Quotes , Law Quotes